CRUEL, CRUEL DAY.
"When I said goodbye to General Weygand, I found him a completely broken man. When I asked him to sign my diplomatic card and to add the date, which he did. General Weygand said: 'Cruel, cruel, cruel day—the cruellest of my life’." Captain Bain-Marais said that all South Africans had left France and the last one to reach England was Miss Marjorie Juta. the South African authoress, who had hailed him in Bordeaux. while she was driving an ambulance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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82CRUEL, CRUEL DAY. Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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